Review: Wrong Turn 2: Dead End

Straight to Dvd comes the sequel to a film many thought should have been straight to Dvd itself, Wrong Turn 2: Dead End. However, if you have even a shred of bloody horror fan in you quit reading this and just go rent the sucker.

Wrong Turn 2 is the first film directed by Joe Lynch a self-proclaimed horror nut and energetic spirit if you are to believe all of the praise found in the Special Features section of the Dvd. The cast are mainly unknowns, though you're sure to remember some of them along with Mr. Henry Rollins. The story takes place once again in the happy forest land of West Virginia where mutated inbred locals are this time killing and feasting upon contestants who are filming a new reality show.

Right out of the gates director Lynch starts with the fancy camera shots, and even though the roads look a little too well maintained to be backwoods creepy country and the ax put to use looks rubber: the picture looks great. The plot scenario with the reality show has been done before and one of the reasons I actually liked the first Wrong Turn was because of the simplicity, so I was wary that the plot was going to try to achieve too much with cliché. They add a new element to the origins of the freaks, which I thought might not fit with the explanation of the first film, however, it fit exactly and even helped strengthen things. Forget the plot, forget cliché, this movie is all about kick-ass fun and the perfect cast rocking it for the perfect director.

Henry Rollins is getting high praise for his role, bringing the fighting spirit to his character and he is deserving. However, each and every one of the cast, though I too am too lazy to name them, filled their role, no matter how trivial a horror movie role it was: awesomely. I became interested in and cared about almost every single one of them before the film was finished.